But by the beginning of the Obama years, this was beginning to look like a pattern for the Army.

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For a relatively subtle look, take pattern cues from the duvet, but up the scale for the bolster's cover wider stripes, bigger flowers.

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Since rebounding off of the March 2009 bear market bottom, the Dow sustained a pattern of higher lows and higher highs. (For those of you who do not look at charts, this is a bullish pattern.) The trend was interrupted earlier this month when the Dow revisited its February 2010 lows.

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One can argue that multiple pages can weaken your position, but this is not how things work in Facebook: users jump from one page to another without any specific discovery pattern in mind (if you look for a scientific word to describe this behavior and impress your colleagues, try serendipity).

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Overall, the fundamental forecasts for 2013 look too benign to lead to any call of a major break from the same pricing pattern and supply-demand pattern of 2011 and 2012.

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